a macabre ‘trophy’ cabinet, a display case filled with grisly items – mostly pacemakers and replacement hip joints – removed from bodies.
A lot of hospitals have a slightly darker souvenir box than that, one for items removed from people who got a little carried away when being ‘intimate’ either by themselves or with someone else.
I’ll always remember one of them as ECC called my department in the middle of the night to get an instrument that may help with something that was a little tricky to remove.
I won’t say what or anything else as we do sign disclaimers regarding patient privacy & even now I take that seriously, but I really felt for this person, I guess for any of them, the humiliation of having to come to hospital for something like this must be dreadful, but if anyone ever reads this (highly doubtful) at least they can know they’re not alone, it’s unfortunately more common than people think.
